“It is mental. I need to keep working to get through this. Going to talk to somebody is not perceived as a bad thing anymore.”
— Pacers center Roy Hibbert, admitting he will see a sports psychologist to help him get out of a shooting slump

“I lost a whole team. This is nothing.”
— Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle, also head coach of the Pacers in the season of “The Malice in The Palace,” when asked how difficult it has been to play without injured Nowitzki and Caron Butler